To begin with, I’m very sorry for all the victims who have lost loved ones because of our fires in California. It could have been us here in Red Bluff. The Redding fire touched me with fear.

To start a fire in our fireplace, all we need is dry paper and a match to light the dry wood. One special way to start it is to blow air on it to get it going.

In California we have incredible winds that actually roar as they fill our trees. One of the things I really enjoy about living here. I also love the sound of the trains, and the booming thunder and lightning. Red Bluff is alive for me.

I moved here from Seattle. I’m getting ready to survive another summer of excessive heat. This will be my fifth summer in Red Bluff. I wanted to be around my children and their magical children. I can tell all of you that without the lights and the air conditioning I won’t make it. How could I?

It’s incredible for me to believe that PG&E meant to harm any person in this bone dry drought state, for trying to bring electricity that we all need. They say it was equipment failure, not on purpose.

How many homeless people here in Red Bluff start fires on purpose and walk away free and easy? Way too many. Starting a fire in this town when the wind is blowing is not an accident.